Author
Santiago Ponciano
Summary: The speaker talks about how adaptable humans are, sharing stories of encountering people who others might consider crazy or unworthy. He emphasizes the importance of having clear goals and not adapting to negative situations, but instead taking a position of command. He compares this attitude to that of a lion, which never backs down and always moves forward. He then discusses the concept of prosperity, which he believes is just as biblical as the concept of salvation. He argues that prosperity is about God's favor in one's life and can be achieved through principles, mandates, and laws in the spiritual realm.
The speaker talks about principles, mandates, and laws in the spiritual world that can generate blessings. He emphasizes the importance of avoiding ignorance and having wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. He also stresses the significance of obedience and being first rather than being the best. The speaker mentions a story of two people who gave the correct report and states that God is looking for people who can speak his language and see things as he does. He also talks about the importance of letting go of others to receive blessings from God. The speaker mentions the significance of tithing and offering as a way to show obedience and open up heaven.
The speaker shares a personal testimony about receiving unexpected money after spending all his own money at a clinic. He emphasizes the importance of obedience and releasing blessings to others in order to receive blessings from God. He encourages the audience to take action and be doers of the word, not just preachers or prayers. He declares times of blessing and transformation for the audience and encourages them to declare it for themselves.
We are adaptable beings. We learn to live in different circumstances and situations. Some time ago I approached a man who was right at the traffic light on a main avenue in my country, I approached him and said if I look at him I am sure that I am in front of a totally insane person, who is commonly called crazy . I mean, that doesn't go from there. However, I felt something and it is that there were so many times that I wanted to know if I was really in front of a demented person. Although he had a stick in his hand and also a face of not very good intentions, I decided to lower the window of the vehicle and ask him a question. I told him, lowering the glass, I told him, how are you? And he told me, this is not good. So, I told him and what is happening? And he says, There is nothing, like that. There is nothing. I passed him something in his hand to collaborate with his situation and then I said, the guy is not crazy. Not bad. I mean, no, no, he's correct. What happens is that we are adaptable beings. One day we need it and we pick up the first can on the street. That little can of soda to sell and maybe we'll stay in that position.
But I'm going to tell you more, I met another man who used a wheelbarrow to throw away garbage. People learned to see him as such, as trash too, because we are adaptable. We adapted and he began to throw out garbage and garbage but also since throwing garbage is such an unworthy job, he accompanied him with a small bottle of rum, alcohol, and that was his food, and he drank and threw garbage, he drank rum, alcohol, liquor, and dumped garbage. And so he was losing weight and was losing the ability to walk and people looked at him badly, pushed him, hurt him. And then, I also approached him.
There are people who need someone to get close to them, but society moves us very quickly and those who go in a hurry never see the traffic signs on the road. Well, let me tell you that I went up to him and talked to him and realized that he was treated like a madman too, but he wasn't. He had been a policeman, what happened was that he made bad decisions and those bad decisions led him to that place, and he was throwing out the trash. Nobody wanted it. He then says that when he saw me he was afraid of me because he knew that I was going to correct him. So, I approached him, I asked him about his family and he told me that he had children. Once he was married, once he had a family, once a boy was born to him, and a girl was born to him and he was filled with illusions about them. But everything had been lost, there was nothing, there was only an empty world, without people who looked at him and who interested him. We are adaptable beings.
We adapt to things and circumstances and situations. One day Israel said, enough is enough and that day its freedom began. And one day, a boy David, looking at a giant, told him, I'll kill you today, and he killed him. I believe that we can get out of the situation we are in, we can break the situation we are in the middle of and we can dedicate ourselves to achieving the goals we have in our lives. He who lives without goals, lives without destination. He who does not have clear goals does not have a port to which he must arrive.
So this morning I tell you the following, we are going to get up and take the position of command. Not because perhaps our humility leads us at one point to think that if we stand out and raise our heads we are being very proud, I am going to tell you something, Satan needs clear demonstrations that those of us who are in positions of authority are going to assume it perfectly We are not going to adapt to the situation in which Satan wants to put his people. We are adaptable.
The one who works in a place where animals are slaughtered, it is possible that the first day he arrives to work in that place he feels a stench, a bad smell so great that he wants to go to the place. But I'm going to tell you something, when you have two hours in that place, they will learn to live with bad smells and that will be their home, they will eat there, they will live there, they will smile there. We are adaptable beings.
I'm going to say something to Satan right now, wherever he is, because I know this is not his place. We are ready to go out there, face you and show that we can get out of the situation and we can put ourselves in a winning position. If you have a clap that you are not going to use, you can give it now. Ah, blessed is the Lord. You can give it now, you can give it now, if you're not going to use it, give it.
Oh, blessed is the Lord. I want you to get up and receive the word that I am going to give you this morning. We are adaptable beings but we are going to say right now, enough is enough.
This church has a name that fascinates me, León de Judá. It specifies which lion it is and that's good. But Lion of Judah knows why? Because speaking of what I'm talking about, I think of the lion. The lion is not the biggest. He is not the biggest, neither in the jungle nor in the savannah, nor is he the strongest, nor is he the fastest, nor is he the one with the best gaze, nor is he the longest running without getting tired. However, he is the king.
Praise him now. Why don't you give him a round of applause. He is the king. Do you know what I am telling you at this hour? Your issue is not strength or new things, it is focus and attitude. Do you know what the elephant does, the biggest when he sees the lion, do you know what he says? Behold the king. And do you know what the lion says when he sees the elephant? There is a lot of food. Give it a round of applause. It is a matter of attitude.
Can you understand what I am telling you this morning? Focus, attitude. And today I want to make the situation a little uncomfortable as I'm leaving tomorrow, I can make him a little uncomfortable. Well, let me tell you this, I'm going to tell you something else about the lion and then I'll focus on something I have to share with you there.
But this is so that we can put our correct attitude to achieve what we want. Well, look, I'm going to tell you something about that lion. It says in Proverbs 30:30 that the lion never turns back. The lion does not back down. What I am telling you is that the lion goes on his way and at the moment he gets into a fight and loses it, he lost the fight, but do you know what he does? Go on your way. And the one who fought with him looks at him and says, lion, but you lost, go back. And he says to him, I don't lose, I learn a little more ahead I'll kill you.
Praise him that he lives. I kill you. It is a matter of attitude. Do you understand what I'm telling you? It is a matter of attitude. It is a matter of wanting to achieve what I want. You as a community came to this country but you needed to change your attitude and focus on what you want and that focus has brought you here.
But I'm going to tell you something, do you feel comfortable here? It's not the end of the road, it's just beginning. The great God is about to see it. What is coming is greater than what has happened and God's good hours are about to live. Can you believe it, can you understand it? Ah, blessed is the Lord. Hallelujah!
So I'm going to share this word with you then. I have this book, small, but very significant. When they said crisis in the world, I took and wrote down these things that are here. When it was said about the great crisis that we were going to go through that many people understood that it was the end of the world, we are about to enter into a great crisis, and someone said like in the 1930s. The greatest of recessions and we are going to have a lot of Black Mondays. And many people said it is the end of my economy, it is the end of what I want.
I am going to tell you something, the word crisis should not intimidate people who are focused on God, for a simple reason, because the crisis as such is relative and implies little for me. Do you know why it implies little? Because there are people who in times of abundance live in crisis. And there are people who in times of crisis live in abundance. It's all a matter of how you approach life. I don't care what the economy says, I care what Jehovah said. Do you know what Jehovah said at this time? That there will be a temple here with a capacity for 2,000 people and that people will come from all sides and enter this place and God is going to bless this house, he is going to bless [inaudible] that it is not motivated, that it excites us.
My emotions set them free. Hallelujah! Blessed is the Lord. Blessed is the Lord. Well, I'm going to tell you something then, I was sharing with a friend, a pastor, in Guatemala, and he told me the following, that he was a pilot and that he flew small planes. And then he told me, you know something? I like to fly small planes but to fly small planes I have to look for the opposite wind so that the plane goes up. And then I was thoughtful and said, does the plane need a contrary wind to go up? He told me yes. I told him, now I understand. When the winds blow against your life, prepare for heights.
Praise him that he lives. Blessed is the Lord. Prepare for heights. Get ready for new levels. Prepare to reach new positions in God. a vision will be effective if we have the right moment in the first place. Second, with the right people and third, with the right environment. For my mission to be effective, then I must have the right time, environment and people.
God is looking for people who have a vision, not needs. There are people who are very interested in God healing their illness, however, everyone who is sick does not qualify for a miracle, nor does everyone who has a crisis qualify for a financial miracle. The kingdom is based on principles, not needs. And I tell you this because God is looking for a vision because God is going to finance only people's vision, not people's needs.
I learned one thing in the Dominican Republic and that is that the Lord was looking for a man with a vision, not men with needs. When I arrived in the eastern zone to work and with my family and settled in that place, I realized that God was after a vision, because the word provision, which is what we all want, oh God, give me provision, remember that the word provision is compound. Provide vision. There is a vision that he is seeing and there is a vision that he is going to attend to and there is a vision that he is going to supply.
So I came and put myself in front of this material and I bring you here the 7 keys to prosperity. The word prosperity is not comfortable in some minds or in any churches. However, the word prosperity is just as biblical as the word salvation. The problem is how I receive it. All the concepts that are mentioned here in principle will appear closed, they will be closed, they must be opened.
If I say, God here, I am not saying anything. I must make it known whether I am speaking of the God of the Jews, of the Muslims or of the Hindus. So the concept of God as such is very closed. The word prosperity also appears closed. I must open the concept, but I am going to say one thing, prosperity outside the Bible is one thing, but prosperity in the Bible is God's favor in my house, in my life, and in everything I do.
I need God's favor to reach my house, that's why the word prosperity is a good word and a much better key, because there are things that I need a key to open. In the spiritual world things are also opened by keys. I can't go open the spirit world unless I have the right key to make things happen. So the spiritual world is a realm where things are accomplished with principles.
There are principles, there are mandates and there are laws. And at this moment I just want to say that the principles are true for me to apply and those truths will generate the blessing that I need. Do you want a miracle? Look to see what are the principles that are for a miracle to happen.
A person comes where he lives, he says, pastor, I want you to pray for my finances, and I tell him, and the laws of the kingdom, are you complying with them? Because there are people who want God to fix their finances but never give a tithe. praise him.
praise him. There are principles and they are the principles of the kingdom, that will open the spiritual world and make things happen, that bless me. So I took this and took it, you know where? To the Dominican Republic, and I began to speak to people who were in dire situations. I had to be a pastor in an area where people had nothing, where they arrived with nothing, where many people arrived and when they left they told me, pastor, a little ticket to go. Know what? I told him on one occasion, I have no problem shepherding people who are in a state of poverty, what I have a problem is shepherding people who do not want to get out of their situation.
When a person does not want to get out of their situation, that is a very difficult situation. Because? Because to get out of the place where I am being destroyed I have to change my mentality, that's why there is a Bible. Do you know why this kingdom has a Bible? Because we are ready to change the mind we have. Human beings are intelligent when they can learn, unlearn to relearn.
There are many people who have not unlearned in order to learn again, but have remained quiet listening to what they say and adding it to their way of being. That is why we have people who do not change their approach or their way of being, they hear things and they hear them and they hear them, but if you do not delete what you brought you cannot keep what they are giving you. are you understanding me?
See, taking out a demon is easy. A demon is told, go away. But changing a mindset can cost a lifetime. So at this moment, God is more interested in changing our attitudes and in making us people who are focused on what we want. Blessed is the Lord.
So one of the things I learned in that place is that God is at work, giving assignments to each one of us. And you know what? When God hands us an assignment we are invincible in the assignment God has given us. Do you know where no one is going to defeat you in life? On your assignment. But which assignment? In which God gives you.
There is a vision that God gives you, that is your assignment. God is trying to see where it puts you that you are invincible. I can't come to Boston without going through a university called Harvard, known throughout the world, and I saw the visionary John Harvard here, and you know what? People would arrive and I would also stand there and instead of taking a photo of me, they would take a photo of John Harvard. And everyone knows what one did? He lowered his camera until I took off. She doesn't want to take a picture with me, she wants to take a picture with John Harvard.
What happens is that when you arrive at your assignment, you are immortal and a vision is transported, you know where? To the future changing and producing the changes of the generations that follow. God is going to raise up this town as a town that changes its style, this zone does not matter what it has been, it does not matter how this zone was, if there is a correct vision here, this zone must prepare itself because it is going to change.
Ah, blessed is the Lord. Blessed is the Lord. It is the applause that the people have. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Ah, blessed is the Lord. Excuse me for making you clap a lot, but I come from a land that applauds. Praise him that he lives.
So, I am invincible in my assignment. Do you know why life is defeating you? Because you don't find the right vision, the right place. Now, I'm going to tell you one thing, your vision will only prosper if it is added to the vision of the house.
I do not have a particular or different point of view, I have a vision associated with the vision of the house. Do you know why the Father glorified the Son? Because the Son always glorified the Father. And the Son always said, I came to do the will of my Father. There are many wills, but the only one that will make me win is my Father's, so with that I learned that it is not the place where you are born, but the place where you decide to die.
Jesus Christ was born in the manger but he said to hell, I do not die in it, I die as king and savior of all men. Decide the place, decide what is going to happen, decide your space. Decide what you are going to achieve. Praise him that he lives. Blessed is the Lord.
O glory. I'm just going to give you key number 1 quickly. And if I don't give you all the keys, [inaudible]. The number 1 key that I want to leave you, if you want to be a blessed person, avoid ignorance. In the kingdom ignorance is not qualified as a point in your favor, but as a score against. When the laws are given in the nations, everyone is considered knowledgeable about it. You can't plead ignorance of a law, right? In the spiritual world you have to have knowledge.
Well, I'm going to tell you brothers, avoid ignorance because ignorance produces misery and darkness. Wherever there is misery go and see and there is ignorance. Ignorance enslaves, ignorance takes away from you, subtracts from you, but I am going to tell you even more, if you look you will realize that most people do not have a financial problem, that most people do not have a health problem, and Since most people don't have marital problems, usually people have a wisdom problem.
Illness, he did not eat what he should. Problems at home, lack of wisdom. He is not understanding the dynamics of life or of the house, or of the family. Lack of wisdom. And money, money, also lack of wisdom. Because if today we take all the money in the world and distribute it equally, and give each human being the same portion, the poor will be poor again and the rich will be rich again. It is a matter of focus, it is a matter of wisdom. It is up to us to understand where we are going.
So the lack of wisdom is ready to damage my approach. Lack of wisdom is ready to destroy my finances, my marriage. Blessed is the Lord. The lack of wisdom. There are three words that look alike and are not the same. The first is knowledge, the second is intelligence, and the third is wisdom.
Knowledge is the set of information that I have in my head. Intelligence is the ease or ability with which I make that knowledge reach my head. But do you know what wisdom is? The grace, the gift, the talent, the ability to apply knowledge properly. Lots of people know what it's like, but don't. There are people who know that God has glory, blessing, that God helps, that God changes, that he transforms, but from there it is up to you to apply the knowledge correctly.
The devil wants to blur us, but today God says, I give you a new focus. I open the heavens and bless you above hell. Blessed is the name of the Lord. They can clap.
Help me preach. One of the things that I understood was that the second key that I needed after intelligence, after avoiding ignorance, was obedience. The obedience. Do you know what a miracle is? A miracle is the result of an act of obedience. Miracles are the result of acts of obedience. When you obey the sky is opening. When you can obey, when you can, brother, obey, you are getting closer to the miracle. And then I understood one thing, that what I learned on one occasion makes sense. If obedience is the key, then it is better to be first than to be best.
People are striving to be the best and God works first. If God was looking for the best, things would not be happening. He looks for the first, the first to arrive, the first to commit, the first to comply, the first to be willing, the first to surrender, the first to do it.
God works with the former. Here God is trying to have the former. Not the best, because a person who is better in his own will is the worst and one who is not the best in God's will will change everything he has to change. God takes humble, simple people and turns them into capable people, into people who can. Blessed is the name of the Lord.
Brethren, I would like to tell you at this moment that when we fulfill our assignment, our name is going to be printed in letters of gold. There are 12 spies who went to verify what was happening in a land, there are 12 spies who were sent to see what was happening in a land and the 12 spies came to the land, looked at the land, and do you know what happened? 10 of them came with an incorrect, unfavorable opinion, but there are two who had the correct opinion. There are 2 who said, that land is a blessing, while 10 said, you can't do it there.
If you go with the majority, you may be going to the wrong place, because many times what upholds the will of God within a body is not the majority. Don't look at majority, look at God's will. God is not trying to put you in a place where you feel comfortable, God is trying to put you in the right place. And the right place is not the one I'm comfortable in, but the one he put me in.
Well, I'm going to tell you the following then, brothers, 12 spies, 10 gave an incorrect recommendation, but there were 2 who said what it was. There were two who spoke words of faith. God is looking for people who learn to speak. God is looking for people who have his language, his language. God is looking for people who can say what he says, see what he sees. Hallelujah!
Well, then I am going to tell you the following, if I tell you what are the names of the two who gave the correct report? Well, I'm going to give a book to the one who tells me the name of the 10. Don't you know them? Because the name of the people who disobey and do what they want, even their name will not appear when talking about who was in the place.
Names are being recorded here today. But it is the name of the person who is doing what is in the heart of Jehovah of Armies. That takes applause, however you want to put it. Praise him that he lives. Praise him that he lives. You can praise it, you can bless it. Oh blessed is the Lord. Oh blessed is the Lord.
Well, I'm going to give him then, in the time I have left, I'm going to give him… Hallelujah! When you take an envelope, more than money you put obedience into it. That's why I really like the envelope, the tithe and the offering, because there are people who open heaven with their hands, and close it with their pocket.
Hallelujah! Do you know what I learned with obedience? That when I let go of another, God lets go of mine. You do not understand. Let me give you details of that. I was in the church parking lot one day, and my phone rings. When it sounds, it speaks of some little sisters who lived in the Dominican Republic, they were not Dominican, but they lived in the Dominican Republic. Since they were going to my church, I wanted to attend the church because of the foreigner. I mean, you have to be careful with these foreign girls in my land, I have to take care of them. The Bible commands me to take care of them. So, I told them, you are like daughters to me. Well, does she know what they did? They called the mom and told her, we found dad. But I found out that his father was a pastor and had died.
So, I told them, I am your father and that is why we have problems, through our mouths. But that was not my problem, on the contrary, I felt very good. But the following happened, one of them got sick and when she gets sick they go to the hospital, to the clinic, to the right place where they had to be at that moment, and they went, checked her and said, there is a very strange problem. So, the doctor took paper, the prescriptions, they give prescriptions, the prescription, there it is, medicine. Take this one, this one in the morning, then this one, then he throws this one at him, that doesn't fail.
The young woman calls me immediately. Dad, we're at the clinic and there's a problem here. My sister is very sick and this… and me, oh God. and so, here we are, they gave us a recipe, and I…bless God. and then, when they finished I closed.
And you know what came to my heart? You finished? Have you finished, pastor? I mean, no, I'm not done yet. I called again. Tell me what's wrong? Do they need money? Sure, the recipe. I say, no, but that's what they prescribed? Some pills. So, I say, ah, they are pills. Okay, there goes dad. Wait for me in the pharmacy, and when I arrive then, I see the young woman who looks and faces... So, look, look, put here, put here, do the calculations $10,300 Dominican pesos, which here perhaps won't even pay attention, but there , brother, praise him that he lives. Give the Lord a round of applause.
The salary and something else of some person during their entire month. praise him. Well, let me tell you then, that I took and told the young woman, does she have to drink all of it or can we go by part? He says, no, it's good that I have it all because this can't fail. I say, well, okay, then. I took out the money, paid it and here I had little left. Well, I'm going to tell you something, when I get to the parking lot and go to my church again, I find an American brother, by the way, who doesn't speak any Spanish, but if my miracle is in English, I don't care. because I'm going to talk to you.
Can you give the Lord a round of applause? I'm going to talk to you. I'm going to talk to you. Oh, brothers, well, let me tell you the following, bless you, pastor. I say, bless you, brother. How do you feel? I say fine. Your family? My family also fine. No, of course, glory to God, it's fine English we're speaking. He will understand me, I will understand him. The fact is that we started the conversation and that it was all nice, but for the moment I hear him say something like, what are the plans of the church? I don't say it in English so as not to confuse. So, he says, what are the plans of the church because he would like to see if I give an offering? When I heard the word offering, I immediately call a young woman, I quickly look who knows something more than me, because my English, you know he comes from England and he is American.
Well, then, I quickly call someone and he comes quickly and begins to give him a little word and I tell him, tell him that the plans are going well and that we have good plans. And we talked a bit and he told me, can you expect me to find the offering for you? Immediately my head turned around, and I told him, but that's what Gideon said to God and God told him, I'll wait for you here. So who am I not to wait for this man?
Give the Lord a big round of applause. Give the Lord a big round of applause. are you understanding me? Are you understanding me?
But I'm going to tell you something so that we stay here well, because time has already passed, at least mine, well let me tell you that the brother arrives immediately and leaves and comes and hands me an envelope. Like a good shepherd, I grab the envelope like this. Do you know what happened? The testimony is here. The word that I am going to release is here.
Do you know how much was in the envelope? 10,000 American pesos. OK. Look, what pleases me about all this is the testimony. I had spent 10,000 Dominicans and it is not that I despise that money of mine. It is a matter of change. The case is the following, when I go, I give 10 and do you know how much they gave me? $10,000 dollars. But you, brothers, are going to believe the following, the word of the Lord came to me like lightning and told me, when you let go of someone's, I am going to let go of yours.
You can give it a round of applause. If you have understood me... I am going to finish, but if you have understood me, what I am telling you is that many blessings are held back by my attitude.
On Wednesday I told him that many are withheld because there is a heaven that opposes my blessing. But I also oppose it because obedience has to be based on what God has established and you know what happens? That many times the miracle that someone is asking to happen to them is in your house. Many blessings come from heaven, but you know what? Many come from your house because if in my church I see a person who is missing shoes, and I have 10 pairs of shoes, a prayer is unnecessary.
Father, in the name of Jesus open the doors of heaven, send him some little shoes. Hey, daddy, if I were God I would tell you more clearly, hey dad, you have 10, give him one. What I am saying is that many times I am holding back what God has for someone, when I release it God will release what belongs to you. If you want God to let go, let go.
Blessed is the Lord. Just read it and I'm done. Look, brothers, the third key that I leave you and with this I am going to finish is actions, to activate. The third key, power on. Do something. dare. I am going to tell you this, we in the churches have trained preachers for years, but the preacher is one thing and the doer of the word is another. The preacher is going to preach very well and in fact today we have so many good preachers, people who know how to preach, people who preach but in a spectacular way. They preach so well that the Holy Spirit says, I don't have much to do there. Because? They do so many things and today I walk and see so many preachers, but God is looking for doers of his word.
So I'm going to leave you only this in this key and I'm going to take it off. The third key that I am going to leave you is actions, do something, dare. I remember on one occasion that I read in a book that said that two fishermen were lost on the high seas and at the moment they are lost on the high seas. And the whole storm begins to hit them and one of the fishermen says to the other, what do we do? Do we pray or row? And the other answered him, let us pray and row. Because there are people who pray but don't row and there are people who row but don't pray. God is looking for people who can pray and row at the same time. So more prayer the word would be prayer.
Dare yourself. Do it. Go ahead, push yourself and do it. If you can give the Lord a round of applause and stand up in this hour.
God is looking for men and women of change. God is looking for people capable of transforming their environment, all that is the result of what was believed. Everything we're seeing someone had to believe it first. Before a jet flew in space, it flew into someone's head.
If you do not intend to act, do not pray either because God does not answer prayers, God answers faith. Prayers, all religions have it and there are religions that pray more than us, there are religions where their parishioners pray three times a day without fail, and if the time of prayer happens in an undetermined place, they will pray however they want .
So God is looking for people of faith. In the Dominican Republic we believed that God could change an entire environment and many people at first will not understand, but it's good that God is like that, sometimes you don't understand God.
I am going to give you a key and go with it, the less you understand God, the closer you are to him, because the closer you get, the less you understand. Raise your hand to heaven.
Those holy hands lift them to heaven, Hallelujah! There is something you are dreaming about today, but there is also something you may be getting used to. Today every situation that causes harm in your life is broken, it is broken today. And I declare times of blessing, times of glory, I declare times in which you will get the best from God. I declare that this is the time that you have dreamed and waited for.
Raise your little hands to the sky. Don't leave without declaring this. Say after me, Lord Jesus, this morning I declare that the supernatural opens so that I can take what belongs to me. Say, today I declare changes, transformation in my life. Say, today I declare that I associate with the right people. Blessed is the Lord, today I declare, that heaven stands in my favor in the name of Jesus.
Amen and amen. Today it happens.